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Why do people do this?

The opposite of what someone asks isn’t the same answer.

If you could actually give an example, someone might tell you a game about that

He doesn’t understand the King of England isn’t in charge of shit…

“Anybody who’s been in the payment system and the processes, who knows the easiest way to find the fraudster is to stop payments and listen, because whoever screams is the one stealing,” he said. “Because my mother-in-law’s not calling, come on, your mother, 80-year-olds, 90-year-olds, they trust the government.”

Even trump voters don’t trust the government, and everyone else sure as fuck doesn’t trust the trump government…

I hate that headlines need to start specifying North or South Korea now…

It’s not struggling to find a direction, it’s going in the opposite direction of Biden…

Which is a good thing considered that was bankrupt state parties thru victory fund then claim a president has zero power and can’t do anything till it’s time to campaign for the next election.

You can’t spend 3.5 years telling people the presidency doesn’t matter then do a 180 for an election.

Porque los dos?

Run a progressive independent in both primaries, take a note out of the wealthy’s book

But you still asked that question…

So I guess I shouldn’t have assumed everyone who read it understood it.

I apologize

Then you didn’t read the summary even…

Just the headline and straight to commenting.

Quick edit:

This is just about federal contracts and everyone still has to follow the law:

While this may be a significant revelation, businesses still have to follow the state and federal laws, which include the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlawed segregation, according to the National Archives.

Being middle class always struck me as having a moderate amount of disposable income after all regular life expenses.

I’ve been getting shit since “Bad and Bougie” became a thing that the bougerouise were “middle class” in pre-revolutionary France.

Because “middle class” isn’t a mathematical range, class are not defined that equally.

In modern America we have:

1. Oligarchies

2. People who don’t have to worry about money.

3. Homeowners living paycheck to paycheck

4. Renters living paycheck to paycheck.

Really you could combine 3 and 4, but home ownership is one of the last big investments people have. When “American middle class” became iconic, homeownership was just taken for granted.

It’s a vague outdated system to expect there’s only 3 classes in the American economy

The best thing he could do is be just as visible as an ex-president as he was while he was president…

Meaning the most I want to hear from that asshat is a few mumbled sentences between exiting a building and entering a vehicle, but I’d prefer to just never hear from him again.

Neoliberals have poisoned the party to the point that we’d all be better off if we never heard a squeak from them again

Maga had to do that to capture the rnc…

We just pried the DNC out of the hands of neoliberals…

Which is why mainstream media is suddenly ok with criticizing the DNC.

What would it take to get a primary system up and running for Independents (or more accurately I guess it would have to be a proper party for a primary to make sense)?

A lot, because you’d need a national and one for each state…

But the time to talk about this was anytime in the last fifty years up till a month ago when we got a DNC chair who will let a fair primary happen…

You’re trying to fix a problem we literally just fixed, and in doing so likely hand control back to neoliberals.

You want to know why it took mainstream media up until the last month to start talking shit about Dems?

It’s because the neoliberals just lost power

Now is the time to rally around the new Dem party, not make a new one

Nowadays, I have very little respect or identification with Democrats. It feels like a failed party

Yeah, but lots of us reached that point decades earlier…

08 Obama was the lone bright point going back forty years of the party.

Hell, at Carter’s time he faced a fractured party because he was moving to far right. So really it’s more like 50 years.

Dems have lost the plot for longer than most of us have been alive, and I’m all about reducing the strength of the party as an organization.

But we still need a DNC and state parties if only to facilitate primaries, that’s a very important function.

If I lived within driving distance of DC or a Tesla factory I would be…

Thought that was clear:

lots of Americans would love to switch locations with you so they could have the opportunity you’re wasting.

I think most state parties are ok, and the DNC just got it’s furtherest left chair in 30 years…

But the idea behind this, that politicians are loyal to voters over party is a lot better than where party comes first. Because helping voters is hard, and if it’s not the priority it doesn’t get done.

When we help voters when able, we have the numbers for majorities.

Websites publish what people will click.

People will click what’s shared on social media. And people will share this stuff just like they will slow down for a car crash.

With stuff like ad blockers, they’re also catering to people who still don’t use ad blockers. So, lowest common denominator

The most important factor, quantitatively speaking, is slightly technical and takes a bit of explanation. If you want to use household wealth data to determine what share of Americans “live paycheck to paycheck,” you have to exclude business owners from the analysis. This isn’t just because — to state what should be obvious — business owners can’t “live paycheck to paycheck,” no matter how poor they are, since they don’t receive a paycheck.

More than business owners, “contractors”.

If you’re a gig worker, including conventional tipped employment to an extent, you’re going to need a buffer because money could dry up. A waitress with a two week cough isn’t making the tips they’re used to and an Uber driver with a blown transmission isn’t making anything.

They couldn’t make it 3 months with no income tho.

Even when you have a career and make better money, better healthcare comes with higher premiums. And 401ks need contributions, so even more people paycheck to paycheck

Who knows?

Our edge might be trillions of years from the closest edge and entropy will make us “nothing” before we collide.

Tomorrow the overlap could happen, an entire different reality with maybe complete different physics and life could just suddenly overlap with our boundaey. If it was “new” it would fly thru ours, almost instantly. If it was “old” it could take billions of years to notice. It might start off a chain reaction where we annihilate each other, we might merge, or even just pass thru each other with zero effect on either.

Like, this is just one of a literal dumbfounding amount of things that we just have zero idea about.

We want to never know the answers, but some day we might just find out with zero warning.

But again, random adults with opinions aren’t the target audience, the target audience is little kids with parents who even if they care won’t want to explain any of the reasons adults don’t like it.

It’s weird how so many adults cared so deeply about this movie and wanted it to bomb…

It’s a fucking kids Disney movie, adults are not the target audience, little kids demanding to see it and parents not caring is still a lot of tickets regardless of what adults think about it.